Congresswoman on Trump assassination attempt task force says there were "enormous gaps" in communication

Washington — Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, a Pennsylvania Democrat who is one of 13 lawmakers on a bipartisan task force investigating the assassination attempt against Donald Trump, said on Sunday that there were "enormous gaps" in communication in the July shooting on the former president. 

"In terms of people texting information to each other rather than using radio, in terms of people not even knowing that there were two command centers, there were huge gaps," Houlahan said on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan." "And there were also some gaps, frankly, in kind of culture and people being relatively lax in the way that they communicated with one another. And all of these things have to be fixed."

Houlahan is the panel of seven Republicans and six Democrats chosen by House Speaker Mike Johnson and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. She said the group has been getting the answers they've been asking for from the Secret Service and local law enforcement while urging the importance of the panel working quickly and on a bipartisan basis "to be able to understand what happened" and to make sure "it doesn't happen again."